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Coalition’s promise of cheaper energy is a mirage
March 27, 2025
Solar Citizens, Australia’s largest voice for clean energy and transport is dismayed by the absence of any commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy in the Coalition’s Budget reply tonight. Solar Citizens CEO Heidi Lee...
Read More ShareNo new support for households to embrace clean energy in this Budget
March 25, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes more focus on big energy companies to offer customers better value, but says more support is needed for home energy producers. Solar Citizens CEO Heidi Lee Douglas said: “We are looking...
Read More ShareGovernments must back household renewables and storage to slash energy bills
March 13, 2025
Today’s forecast electricity price rise for Australia’s eastern states (through the Default Market Offer) sends a clear signal to both governments and energy consumers that more support is needed for all households to get...
Read More ShareNSW Solar for Apartments - good news for low to mid-rise apartments
February 28, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes the new $25 million NSW Solar for Apartment Residents grants program for owners’ corporations and strata managers to install shared rooftop solar systems. This program is co-funded with the Federal Government...
Read More ShareQueensland government urged to lead on clean energy plan
February 19, 2025
Solar Citizens urges the Crisafulli government to enable Queensland to keep charging ahead as the clean energy state, by providing more win-win affordable cost-of-living energy solutions for all Queenslanders.
Read More ShareUnlocking $billions of benefits in our energy market
February 13, 2025
Solar Citizens proposes a comprehensive rethink of the National Electricity Market (NEM) which could deliver benefits worth $19 billion by 2040, in its submission to a Federal review of the National Energy Wholesale Market...
Read More ShareRooftop solar pushing down bills but nuclear will cut solar savings
January 30, 2025
Solar Citizens welcomes the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Quarterly Energy Dynamics Report which shows that Australia’s already world-leading solar households have set new records in electricity production. The report covers the last quarter...
Read More ShareSolar Citizens warns that going nuclear threatens to switch off cheap home solar power
December 13, 2024
While the Coalition and energy experts contest the real financial cost of the Federal Opposition’s nuclear power plans, Solar Citizens says that it is a major risk to ignore the impacts of proposed nuclear...
Read More ShareKylea Tink MP calls for federal battery rebate scheme to support target of one million household batteries
November 22, 2024
Solar Citizens welcomes Independent MP Kylea Tink’s call in Federal Parliament (Tuesday 19th November 2024) for a federally funded, national battery rebate scheme to support households and small businesses to invest in battery storage...
Read More ShareSolar Citizens calls for energy market reform to stop rooftop solar owners being over-charged
November 08, 2024
Solar Citizens is deeply concerned by the findings of Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) that households with rooftop solar are being charged at highly variable rates between retailers, with some being charged more than 50%...
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